Planning to join Curves... do I wear my Alta when working out?

gmarrier

So I have never truly exercised with my Alta... random walking now and again... but thinking that I need to do more if I want to see results. Planning to join Curves fitness... wondering if I should wear my Alta when I am exercising or not. If I wear it I am wondering if it is going to double count my exercise. Anyone have some knowledge or experience on this?

heybales

Not sure why you would think it would double count exercise - it's intended to try to estimate exercise calories, as well as monitor HR.

Kicker on a resistance workout though - HR-based calculation of calorie burn is not that accurate and could be badly inflated, depending on how intense you were.

But .... that is a 30 min workout, 3 x weekly?

If you are otherwise active, then that inflation is a small % of your otherwise bigger calorie burn - more inaccuracy in your food labels frankly.

If you are concerned about inflated calorie burn, do indeed start your workout on watch, call it circuit training or workout or whatever - you mainly want to see the start and duration time when finished.

Then you can manually log on Fitbit a workout called Circuit training using that start/duration time to match - the calories it gives accept - and it will replace the calories in the daily totals, though the Activity Record that is still there shows the old calories.

Don't worry - Fitbit is a replace only system, it can't add-to to double the calories.
The original Activity Record lets you view HR, whatever Fitbit thought was calorie burn, steps, ect - you can add detail to this record - tired, hard, easy, increased weight, ect.
The manually added Workout Record contains the calories used for it, and reflected in your daily total.